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George Lucas: “America is the empire and the rebels are the Vietcong. Anakin is George Bush. The leader of the evil corporation is named after Newt Gingrich. The evil corporation invades a small democracy for plasma (space oil)”
Chuds: “I sleep”
TLJ: “woman”
Chuds: foaming “YOU MADE IT POLITICAL YOU DAMN LIBERALS!”
War, by its very nature is political. Probably war could be defined as “violent political disagreement”.
Aggressive negotiations
A lot of war movies don’t really show the personal or political motivations for both sides. Some sure do. But a lot of them are almost more of man VS god or man VS nature in their plots.
In A New Hope, we watch a young man get radicalized. Han grapples with reasons to fight the whole trilogy. Etc
